Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: Bloom's Guides

harold bloom

Published in 1960 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird is required reading for many middle and high school students. The coming-of-age tale of its young narrator, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the issues of prejudice, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy. This accessible study guide is a compilation of important current criticism on Harper Lee's first and only novel gleaned from key publications.

Genres classicsfictionhistorical fictionhigh schoolliteratureschoolclassic literaturenovelsbook clubyoung adult

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2011

This edition

Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Published: June 30, 2004 by Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791077641
ASIN: 0791077640
Language: English

About the author

harold bloom

Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.